Simple quiz. Each slide of the powerpoint begins with an outline map of one of the competing countries in Euro 2012. A click of the mouse will reveal the football strip of that country, modelled by a Subbuteo / Zeugo figure. Another click will reveal the flag of that country. A fourth click will reveal the name of the team. How many clicks do your pupils need before they identify the team?

Text based on an article about the German enthusiasm for football. All the gaps in the cloze exercise are verbs. At the end one verb will remain unused.

A synopsis of the film in the Present Tense up to the point where Hardenberg is kidnapped. Students have to read the synopsis and then re-write the text in either the Perfect or the Imperfect Tense, depending on which of the two attached files you use. (I've uploaded this to replace an earlier version which doesn't seem to display the file.)

Chat show interview in which Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer is interviewed about how he gets on with Santa, Mrs Nicholas and the other reindeer. Lots of practice of 'Ich verstehe mich gut mit&' and adjectives for describing personality.

Interactive, drag and drop match-up activity of some idioms which may possibly amuse students enough to want to use them. Will work on PC or IW

Dialogue/playscript in which Santa describes how he spent Christmas, using a few high-frequency Perfect Tense sentences.

Playscript in which Shrek, exhausted by fatherhood, can not remember basic information about his life and his family and has to be corrected repeatedly by Fiona. Revision of birthdays, where I live, my house, my family, likes and dislikes and colours.

Revision sheet with an overview of German verbs in three tenses

Powerpoint which gradually builds up examples of word order when using separable verbs and illustrates the parallel with adverbial phrases. All in the context of daily routine.

A grammar exercise practising the present tense endings of the verb habiter. This doubles up, on completion, as a dialogue in which Shrek and Superman discuss each other's living arrangements, with the occasional interruption from Donkey.

Students must reconstitute the exploded dialogue and then practise it in pairs.

Interactive practice of different tense forms of 'essen'

Challenging gap-fill text about WORK EXPERIENCE

Dialogue for students to act out, in which Dracula repeatedly oversleeps and has to ask Igor what time it is. Perform it to them with the FLA or act out both parts yourself. The hammier the better. Then ask them to practise the dialogue. They can then use the additional lexis at the bottom of the sheet to expand the dialogue, either as an oral improvisation or as a written task.

The sheet models common separable verbs relating to Tagesroutine in 3 tenses and the provides a set of interview questions which require students to use the verbs in different tenses. Could be done as a written exercise before embarking on the pair work.

Interactive activity for the IW. Present tense of SEIN.

interactive activity for the IW. Practice of Present Tense of KOMMEN.

Interactive activity for the IW. Present tense of HABEN.

Interactive practice of numbers 10 to 50

Activity to follow the film KOKOWÄÄH 2. Students must match the names of the characters to short character descriptions.